Introduction / Peter A. Coclanis -- The Dutch Atlantic economies / Jan de Vries -- Self-organized complexity and the emergence of an Atlantic market economy, 1651 1815 : the case of Madeira / David Hancock -- Cloth and the emergence of the Atlantic economy / Robert S. Duplessis -- The...

A colonial empire in crisis -- Empire beyond the mercantile system -- Between enslaved territories and overseas provinces -- Supplying or supplanting the Americas -- A revolutionary crescendo -- Conclusion: Ancien Regime legacies.